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Cognition
The way we think
Social cognition
The psychological processes that people engage in to make sense of social information
The two models of information processing
Intuitive system
Rational system
Intuitive system
Fast
Automatic
Parallel processing
Rational system
Slow
Conscious
Serial processing
Flaws of firsthand information
Unfiltered - Interpreting raw data
Can be unrepresentative
Can be inaccurate
Pluralistic ignorance
Misperception of a group norm because the group is acting in a way that is contrary to personal beliefs in order to fit in with one another
Flaws of secondhand information
Comes from others
Efforts are not always made to avoid error
Causes of bad secondhand information
In service of entertainment (including bad news bias)
Ideological distortions
Heuristics
Intuitive mental operations that provide efficient answers to common judgement problems
Availability heuristic
Relying on examples that come to mind easily
Fluency
How easy it feels to process information
How familiar you are with it
Conjunction fallacy
Failure to recognize that the sum of probabilities A and B must be equal to, or greater than A and B
Representativeness heuristic
The extent to which something fits into a category to infer information about it
Anchoring heuristic
Numeric estimates are anchored to whatever comparison point we encounter
Most common heuristics people use
Availability
Representativeness
Anchoring
Spin framing
Framing information to be seen as favourable or unfavourable
Components of order effects
Primacy effect
Recency effect
Construal level theory
Psychologically distant actions and events are thought about in abstract terms
Types of framing
Spin-framing
Order effects
Temporal framing
Priming
When previously presented information activates a concept, making it more accessible
Author
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ID
357631
Card Set
Psych - Social cognitions
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2022-02-06T18:11:16Z
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